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November 17, 2016 09:08 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/CX6Fhed171s/americas-top-spy-wont-stic.html
America's top spy won't stick around to watch Donald Trump wield his doomsday device
James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligence, has tendered his resignation. He says he will serve through the handover to the new administration, whereupon Donald Trump will inherit an arsenal of cyberweapons and a $52B/year army of 107,000 secret, unaccountable spies that Clapper has strengthened and emboldened in one of the most sustained and successful exercises in empire-building in US governmental history. (more…)
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